Why Was Lincoln Murdered

Author : Otto Eisenschiml
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781528760942

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Why Was Lincoln Murdered? by Otto Eisenschiml Pdf

Why did General Grant suddenly alter his plans and decide not to go to Ford's Theater on the evening of Lincoln's assassination? Who, during that same night, tampered with the telegraph wires leading out of Washington? Why was the President's bodyguard at the playhouse, guilty of the grossest negligence, not punished nor even questioned? Perhaps the most serious reproach against historical writers is not that they have left such questions unanswered, but that they have failed to ask them. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Craig L. Symonds,Frank J. Williams
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823263950

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The Lincoln Assassination by Craig L. Symonds,Frank J. Williams Pdf

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln’s murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the most up-to-date accounts of the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865—the relentless pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the streets of the nation’s cities, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis. The contributors are among the finest scholars who are studying Lincoln’s assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their thoroughness, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.

Author : William Hanchett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0252013611

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The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies by William Hanchett Pdf

Examines the many theories that have led to speculation that Lincoln's assassination was a conspiracy.

Author : Robert Somerlott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0894908863

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The Lincoln Assassination in American History by Robert Somerlott Pdf

This book describes the people, events, and the conspiracy that led to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. It traces the lives of both Lincoln and the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. Highlighting the tensions and political divisions of the Civil War era, the story of the first United States presidential assassination is told in great detail.

Author : Burt Solomon
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765385840

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The Murder of Willie Lincoln by Burt Solomon Pdf

The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning political journalist and Washington insider Burt Solomon. Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln’s will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president’s heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives, suggesting otherwise. Lincoln asks John Hay, his trusted aide—and almost a son—to investigate Willie’s death. Some see Hay as a gadfly--adventurous, incisive, lusty, reflective, skeptical, even cynical—but he loves the president and so seeks the truth behind the boy’s death. And so, as we follow Hay in his investigation, we are shown the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City, from the president’s office and the gentleman’s dining room at Willard’s Hotel to the alley hovels, wartime hospitals, and the dome-less Capitol’s vermin-infested subbasement. We see the unfamiliar sides of a grief-stricken president, his hellcat of a wife, and their two surviving and suffering sons, and Hay matches wits with such luminaries as General McClellan, William Seward, and the indomitable detective Allan Pinkerton. What Hay discovers has the potential of not only destroying Lincoln, but a nation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Edward Steers
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0813191513

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Blood on the Moon by Edward Steers Pdf

Blood on the Moon examines the evidence, myths, and lies surrounding the political assassination that dramatically altered the course of American history. Was John Wilkes Booth a crazed loner acting out of revenge, or was he the key player in a wide conspiracy aimed at removing the one man who had crushed the Confederacy's dream of independence? Edward Steers Jr. crafts an intimate, engaging narrative of the events leading to Lincoln's death and the political, judicial, and cultural aftermaths of his assassination.

Author : Edward SteersJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813137735

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Blood on the Moon by Edward SteersJr. Pdf

Winner of the 2001 The Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement A History Book Club Selection The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usually told as a tale of a lone deranged actor who struck from a twisted lust for revenge. This is not only too simple an explanation; Blood on the Moon reveals that it is completely wrong. John Wilkes Booth was neither mad nor alone in his act of murder. He received the help of many, not the least of whom was Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the Charles County physician who has been portrayed as the innocent victim of a vengeful government. Booth was also aided by the Confederate leadership in Richmond. As he made his plans to strike at Lincoln, Booth was in contact with key members of the Confederate underground, and after the assassination these same forces used all of their resources to attempt his escape. Noted Lincoln authority Edward Steers Jr. introduces the cast of characters in this ill-fated drama, he explores why they were so willing to help pull the trigger, and corrects the many misconceptions surrounding this defining moment that changed American history. After completing an acclaimed career as a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Edward Steers Jr. has turned his research skills to the Lincoln assassination. He is the author of several books about the president, including The Trial.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598534023

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President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr by Anonim Pdf

For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic immediacy of Lincoln’s assassination, the hunt for the conspirators and their military trial, and the nation’s mourning for the martyred president. The fateful story is told in more than eighty original documents—eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries, and poems—by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him. Courtroom testimony exposes the intricacies of the plot to kill the president; eulogies by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, and Benjamin Disraeli and poetry by Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Julia Ward Howe give eloquent voice to grief; two emotional speeches by Frederick Douglass—one of them never before published—reveal his evolving perspective on Lincoln’s legacy. Together these voices combine to reveal the full panorama of one the most shocking and tragic events in our history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433067408686

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The Assassination of President Lincoln by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carolyn Lawton Harrell
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0865545871

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When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln by Carolyn Lawton Harrell Pdf

Yet in the days after the assassination, Confederates gladdened by Lincoln's death feared Northern reprisals and dared not express their feelings openly. As word spread across the South, however, many ex-Confederates turned to their diaries and journals, where they poured out their fears and wrath with impunity and without restraint.

Author : Tom Taylor
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041803064

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Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor Pdf

Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.

Author : Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781584771258

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd Pdf

In this volume Oldroyd recounts the events leading up to and following the assassination, including several chapters on the trials of the conspirators. Oldroyd recounts in great detail the trip he took in May, 1901, in which he traced the route that John Wilkes Booth took during his escape and capture and interviewed several who aided the assassin in high flight. Oldroyd's account is enhanced by his references to the many sources in his collection and augmented further in the accompanying 82 illustrations.

Author : William H. Seward,Frederick W. Seward
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752523744

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Seward,Frederick W. Seward Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Author : Karen Zeinert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0208024514

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The Lincoln Murder Plot by Karen Zeinert Pdf

Text, including quotations from contemporary sources such as the diary of John Wilkes Booth, the testimony of witnesses, letters, and accounts by others involved, examines the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Author : William C. Edwards,Edward Steers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 1490 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252091070

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The Lincoln Assassination by William C. Edwards,Edward Steers Pdf

On April 22, 1865, Brevet Colonel H. L. Burnett was assigned to head the investigation into the murder of President Abraham Lincoln and the attempted murder of Secretary of State William H. Seward. Burnett orchestrated the collection of thousands of documents for the Military Commission’s trial of the conspirators. This deep archive of documentary evidence--consisting of letters, depositions, eyewitness accounts, investigative reports, and other documents--provides invaluable insight into the historical, cultural, and judicial context of the investigation. Only a fraction of the information presented in these documents ever made its way into the trial, and most of it has never been readily accessible. By presenting an annotated and indexed transcription of these documents, this volume offers significant new access to information on the events surrounding the assassination and a vast new store of social and political history of the Civil War era. “With tears in my eyes I think it your duty to hang every rebel caught. I feel as bad as if was my own mother or father & will be one to volunteer to try & shoot every Southern man. May God have mercy on the man’s soul that done such a deed. With much Respect for our Country, I remain Weeping” --Anonymous letter, New York, April 15, 1865 “I know Booth. He was in the habit of coming to my place to shoot. . . . He shot well, and practiced to shoot with accuracy in every possible position. . . . He was a quick shot; always silent, reticent.” --Deposition of Benjamin Barker, Pistol Gallery proprietor